Why We Need Ordinary Language Philosophy

Author : Sandra Laugier
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226829579

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Why We Need Ordinary Language Philosophy by Sandra Laugier Pdf

Now in paperback, Sandra Laugier's reconsideration of analytic philosophy and ordinary language. Sandra Laugier has long been a key liaison between American and European philosophical thought, responsible for bringing American philosophers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Stanley Cavell to French readers—but until now her books have never been published in English. Why We Need Ordinary Language Philosophy rights that wrong with a topic perfect for English-language readers: the idea of analytic philosophy. Focused on clarity and logical argument, analytic philosophy has dominated the discipline in the United States, Australia, and Britain over the past one hundred years, and it is often seen as a unified, coherent, and inevitable advancement. Laugier questions this assumption, rethinking the very grounds that drove analytic philosophy to develop and uncovering its inherent tensions and confusions. Drawing on J. L. Austin and the later works of Ludwig Wittgenstein, she argues for the solution provided by ordinary language philosophy—a philosophy that trusts and utilizes the everyday use of language and the clarity of meaning it provides—and in doing so offers a major contribution to the philosophy of language and twentieth- and twenty-first-century philosophy as a whole.

Author : Sandra Laugier
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226037554

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Why We Need Ordinary Language Philosophy by Sandra Laugier Pdf

Now in paperback, Sandra Laugier's reconsideration of analytic philosophy and ordinary language. Sandra Laugier has long been a key liaison between American and European philosophical thought, responsible for bringing American philosophers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Stanley Cavell to French readers—but until now her books have never been published in English. Why We Need Ordinary Language Philosophy rights that wrong with a topic perfect for English-language readers: the idea of analytic philosophy. Focused on clarity and logical argument, analytic philosophy has dominated the discipline in the United States, Australia, and Britain over the past one hundred years, and it is often seen as a unified, coherent, and inevitable advancement. Laugier questions this assumption, rethinking the very grounds that drove analytic philosophy to develop and uncovering its inherent tensions and confusions. Drawing on J. L. Austin and the later works of Ludwig Wittgenstein, she argues for the solution provided by ordinary language philosophy—a philosophy that trusts and utilizes the everyday use of language and the clarity of meaning it provides—and in doing so offers a major contribution to the philosophy of language and twentieth- and twenty-first-century philosophy as a whole.

Author : Oswald Hanfling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134352135

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Philosophy and Ordinary Language by Oswald Hanfling Pdf

What is philosophy about and what are its methods? Philosophy and Ordinary Language is a defence of the view that philosophy is largely about questions of language, which to a large extent means ordinary language. Some people argue that if philosophy is about ordinary language, then it is necessarily less deep and difficult than it is usually taken to be but Oswald Hanfling shows us that this isn't true. Hanfling, a leading expert in the development of analytic philosophy, covers a wide range of topics, including scepticism and the definition of knowledge, free will, empiricism, folk psychology, ordinary versus artificial logic, and philosophy versus science. Drawing on philosophers such as Austin, Wittgenstein, and Quine, this book explores the nature of ordinary language in philosophy.

Author : Avner Baz
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674068483

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When Words Are Called For by Avner Baz Pdf

A new form of philosophizing known as ordinary language philosophy took root in England after the Second World War, promising a fresh start and a way out of long-standing dead-end philosophical debates. Pioneered by Wittgenstein, Austin, and others, OLP is now widely rumored, within mainstream analytic philosophy, to have been seriously discredited, and consequently its perspective is ignored. Avner Baz begs to differ. In When Words Are Called For, he shows how the prevailing arguments against OLP collapse under close scrutiny. All of them, he claims, presuppose one version or another of the very conception of word-meaning that OLP calls into question and takes to be responsible for many traditional philosophical difficulties. Worse, analytic philosophy itself has suffered as a result of its failure to take OLP’s perspective seriously. Baz blames a neglect of OLP’s insights for seemingly irresolvable disputes over the methodological relevance of “intuitions” in philosophy and for misunderstandings between contextualists and anti-contextualists (or “invariantists”) in epistemology. Baz goes on to explore the deep affinities between Kant’s work and OLP and suggests ways that OLP could be applied to other philosophically troublesome concepts. When Words Are Called For defends OLP not as a doctrine but as a form of practice that might provide a viable alternative to work currently carried out within mainstream analytic philosophy. Accordingly, Baz does not merely argue for OLP but, all the more convincingly, practices it in this eye-opening book.

Author : Herman Cappelen,Tamar Gendler,John P. Hawthorne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199668779

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The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Methodology by Herman Cappelen,Tamar Gendler,John P. Hawthorne Pdf

This is a comprehensive book on philosophical methodology. A team of leading philosophers present original essays on various aspects of how philosophy should be and is done. They explore broad traditions and approaches, topics in philosophical methodology, and the interconnections between philosophy and neighbouring fields.

Author : Richard Fleming
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0838755682

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First Word Philosophy by Richard Fleming Pdf

Ordinary language philosophy, explains Fleming (philosophy, Bucknell U.), proposes that analysts articulate the conditions of restraint of particular uses of language, and identify the implications those uses make possible. Discussions of language analyzed and problems solved, it holds, should be deferred until after the specific language that people actually use is understood. He sets out the principles, methods, and findings of the approach. Distributed by Associated University Presses. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Author : Toril Moi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-22
Category : LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
ISBN : 9780226464442

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Revolution of the Ordinary by Toril Moi Pdf

This radically original book argues for the power of ordinary language philosophy—a tradition inaugurated by Ludwig Wittgenstein and J. L. Austin, and extended by Stanley Cavell—to transform literary studies. In engaging and lucid prose, Toril Moi demonstrates this philosophy’s unique ability to lay bare the connections between words and the world, dispel the notion of literature as a monolithic concept, and teach readers how to learn from a literary text. Moi first introduces Wittgenstein’s vision of language and theory, which refuses to reduce language to a matter of naming or representation, considers theory’s desire for generality doomed to failure, and brings out the philosophical power of the particular case. Contrasting ordinary language philosophy with dominant strands of Saussurean and post-Saussurean thought, she highlights the former’s originality, critical power, and potential for creative use. Finally, she challenges the belief that good critics always read below the surface, proposing instead an innovative view of texts as expression and action, and of reading as an act of acknowledgment. Intervening in cutting-edge debates while bringing Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell to new readers, Revolution of the Ordinary will appeal beyond literary studies to anyone looking for a philosophically serious account of why words matter.

Author : Oswald Hanfling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134602889

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Philosophy and Ordinary Language by Oswald Hanfling Pdf

What is philosophy about and what are its methods? Philosophy and Ordinary Language is a defence of the view that philosophy is largely about questions of language, which to a large extent means ordinary language. Some people argue that if philosophy is about ordinary language, then it is necessarily less deep and difficult than it is usually taken to be but Oswald Hanfling shows us that this isn't true. Hanfling, a leading expert in the development of analytic philosophy, covers a wide range of topics, including scepticism and the definition of knowledge, free will, empiricism, folk psychology, ordinary versus artificial logic, and philosophy versus science. Drawing on philosophers such as Austin, Wittgenstein, and Quine, this book explores the nature of ordinary language in philosophy.

Author : Keith Graham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015004030030

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J. L. Austin by Keith Graham Pdf

Author : Greg Chase,Juliet Floyd,Sandra Laugier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781316515259

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Cavell's Must We Mean What We Say? at 50 by Greg Chase,Juliet Floyd,Sandra Laugier Pdf

An accessible investigation of the importance of Cavell's most famous work for modern and contemporary philosophy and literature.

Author : Vere Claiborne Chappell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015002607177

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Ordinary Language by Vere Claiborne Chappell Pdf

Author : Niklas Forsberg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781623566593

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Language Lost and Found by Niklas Forsberg Pdf

Language Lost and Found takes as its starting-point Iris Murdoch's claim that "we have suffered a general loss of concepts." By means of a thorough reading of Iris Murdoch's philosophy in the light of this difficulty, it offers a detailed examination of the problem of linguistic community and the roots of the thought that some philosophical problems arise due to our having lost the sense of our own language. But it is also a call for a radical reconsideration of how philosophy and literature relate to each other on a general level and in Murdoch's authorship in particular.

Author : Niklas Forsberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1032112468

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Lectures on a Philosophy Less Ordinary by Niklas Forsberg Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive reinterpretation of J.L. Austin's philosophy. It opens new ways of thinking about ethics and other contemporary issues in the wake of Austin's philosophical work. Austin is primarily viewed as a philosopher of language whose work focused on the pragmatic aspects of speech. His work on ordinary language philosophy and speech act theory is seen as his main contribution to philosophy. This book challenges this received view to show that Austin used his most well-known theoretical notions as heuristic tools aimed at debunking the fact/value dichotomy. Additionally, it demonstrates that Austin's continual returns to the ordinary is rooted in a desire to show that our lives in language are complicated and multifaceted. What emerges is an attempt to think with Austin about problems that are central to philosophy today--such as the question about linguistic inheritance, truth, the relationship between a language inherited and morality, and how we are to cope with linguistic elasticity and historicity. Lectures on a Philosophy Less Ordinary will appeal to scholars and advanced students working on Austin's philosophy, philosophy of language, and the history of analytic philosophy.

Author : Randy Ramal
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781793638816

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On Philosophy, Intelligibility, and the Ordinary by Randy Ramal Pdf

Randy Ramal argues that philosophy’s main responsibility lies in providing intelligibility to the ordinary language of everyday life while dispelling unwarranted skepticism. Philosophers need to go the hard way to fulfill this responsibility because of the constant and dangerous temptation to turn philosophy into a normative discipline rather than keep it as a descriptively hermeneutical enterprise. In On Philosophy, Intelligibility, and the Ordinary: Going the Bloody Hard Way, the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead is central to Ramal’s endeavor to demonstrate the need to separate the hermeneutical responsibility of philosophy from the normative aspects of responsibility. While showing the futility of labeling Whitehead as a purely disinterested philosopher who abandons the idea that ordinariness is relevant to good philosophical thinking, Ramal frames this discussion within a larger, in-depth engagement with a vast number of thinkers, philosophers, and literary figures whose works touch on the question of the ordinary.

Author : Stanley Rosen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0300150466

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Metaphysics in Ordinary Language by Stanley Rosen Pdf

In this rich collection of philosophical writings, Stanley Rosen addresses a wide range of topics-from eros, poetry, and freedom to problems like negation and the epistemological status of sense perception. Though diverse in subject, Rosen’s essays share two unifying principles: there can be no legitimate separation of textual hermeneutics from philosophical analysis, and philosophical investigation must be oriented in terms of everyday language and experience, although it cannot simply remain within these confines. Ordinary experience provides a minimal criterion for the assessment of extraordinary discourses, Rosen argues, and without such a criterion we would have no basis for evaluating conflicting discourses: philosophy would give way to poetry.Philosophical problems are not so deeply embedded in a specific historical context that they cannot be restated in terms as valid for us today as they were for those who formulated them, the author maintains. Rosen shows that the history of philosophy-a story of conflicting interpretations of human life and the structure of intelligibility-is a story that comes to life only when it is rethought in terms of the philosophical problems of our own personal and historical situation.